The Story of How Our Data Can Be Stored Forever: From Microform to Macromolecules - [Raja Appuswamy]

[Written by Th. Matzakou]

We are producing more data in the last few years than we ever did as a human kind. We now store all of our thoughts and actions as digital files. However, except when we run out of storage space on our phones, we do not usually think much about problems related to storing our data over several decades. IBM manufactured the first hard drive in 1956, where you could store one mp3 song in a disk at the size of a washing machine. We have come a long way and data storage technology has evolved tremendously over the last five decades. Despite this, no storage technology available today is able to keep up with the rate of digital data production, or provide long-term storage of data at a low cost. …

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